direct the http request to new page

As Wiesmann suggests, you could use an HTTP class to perform the redirection if you're on 9.4 or higher. Else, you could use a simple iRule.

 

 

For rewriting the request (as opposed to redirecting to a new location)...

 

 

According to RFC2616 you can use a fully qualified reference in the URI. The server must then ignore the host header. But it might be confusing for troubleshooting if you see one hostname in the URI and a different one in the host header. To avoid this, you could use 'HTTP::header replace Host $new_host' to update the host header and HTTP::uri to update the URI:

 

 

HTTP::header replace Host "www.allforme.com"

 

HTTP::uri [string map { /player /maintenance } [HTTP::uri]]

 

 

Aaron